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- Rockville
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- VA
You just have to shop in the right places….
What's on your Work Bench?
- Thread starter certifiablejeep
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- Biloxi
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- MS
Found some surplus 4" thick, 1' wide, 12' long marine treated timbers at work so made some bridging ramps:
Drove two 2x4 stakes, 30" long, to anchor the bottom end in place. Drove some 30" long pieces of uninstrut along the sides to hold the timbers in place, fastened the unistrut to the timbers with some 3" long Timber tech lag bolts:
Was so happy, maiden trailer-less test was a piece of cake, Scrambler walked right up the hill.
First attempt today, with a loaded trailer, wasn't lined up correct, still had street pressure in the tires, back tire slipped off the side, trailer tire caught a tree, stuck. Should have used the Hi-Lift and pulled the trailer axle sideways off the tree, impatient, winched the Jeep/trailer up the hill, bent the 4 month old trailer axle!!
Tried to winch it back straight, no go, almost ripped the rear cross member off the trailer. So, pulled it off, tried to straighten it with a 12 ton press, no go.
Trailer store is less then two miles from my house, they had another axle in stock, so swapped all my hubs on to the new axle and installed it.
Better luck tomorrow
Drove two 2x4 stakes, 30" long, to anchor the bottom end in place. Drove some 30" long pieces of uninstrut along the sides to hold the timbers in place, fastened the unistrut to the timbers with some 3" long Timber tech lag bolts:
Was so happy, maiden trailer-less test was a piece of cake, Scrambler walked right up the hill.
First attempt today, with a loaded trailer, wasn't lined up correct, still had street pressure in the tires, back tire slipped off the side, trailer tire caught a tree, stuck. Should have used the Hi-Lift and pulled the trailer axle sideways off the tree, impatient, winched the Jeep/trailer up the hill, bent the 4 month old trailer axle!!
Tried to winch it back straight, no go, almost ripped the rear cross member off the trailer. So, pulled it off, tried to straighten it with a 12 ton press, no go.
Trailer store is less then two miles from my house, they had another axle in stock, so swapped all my hubs on to the new axle and installed it.
Better luck tomorrow
- City
- Biloxi
- State
- MS
That was a Dexter axle, not Harbor Freight!!! Original HF axle lasted 6-7:years, getting less then one year out of good axles!!! Hmm, this axle was $155, could have almost bought a whole new HF trailer for that muchTell me more about how good youre shitty a$$ HF trailer is treating you?
- City
- Cobourg, Ontario, Cana
- State
- da
for the money and time that you have spent on that, you could have purchased a surplus US military trailer and beat the snot out of that... I abused a Canadian Military trailer for 20 years before I sold it for 4 times what I bought it for. Now I have a US Military trailer that I paid $500 CDN (like $0.75 USD) and I wont be able to kill that one. I wish I could buy some of the stuff on GovPlanet that you guys sell off... 
The trailer behind my CJ-2a in my signature is a 1948 Bantam T3C, I paid $100 for it 10-12 years ago, all I've done to that is repack the bearings. Beat the snot out of that too!
The trailer behind my CJ-2a in my signature is a 1948 Bantam T3C, I paid $100 for it 10-12 years ago, all I've done to that is repack the bearings. Beat the snot out of that too!
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- Biloxi
- State
- MS
The only problem with those trailers for my use is the width, they are too wide for my trails. And, they won't hold as much as my 4'x8' boxfor the money and time that you have spent on that, you could have purchased a surplus US military trailer and beat the snot out of that... I abused a Canadian Military trailer for 20 years before I sold it for 4 times what I bought it for. Now I have a US Military trailer that I paid $500 CDN (like $0.75 USD) and I wont be able to kill that one. I wish I could buy some of the stuff on GovPlanet that you guys sell off...
The trailer behind my CJ-2a in my signature is a 1948 Bantam T3C, I paid $100 for it 10-12 years ago, all I've done to that is repack the bearings. Beat the snot out of that too!
I don't know what the metal is on the axle. Can you weld something like a (1 1/2"x 2') angle that's 3/16" thick on each end (since you like to bend them on the outside of the spring). Do it on each side to strengthen the section that gets the pressure. That tree has more force then your 12 ton press.
PetesCj-8
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- slatington
- State
- pa
for the money and time that you have spent on that, you could have purchased a surplus US military trailer and beat the snot out of that... I abused a Canadian Military trailer for 20 years before I sold it for 4 times what I bought it for. Now I have a US Military trailer that I paid $500 CDN (like $0.75 USD) and I wont be able to kill that one. I wish I could buy some of the stuff on GovPlanet that you guys sell off...
The trailer behind my CJ-2a in my signature is a 1948 Bantam T3C, I paid $100 for it 10-12 years ago, all I've done to that is repack the bearings. Beat the snot out of that too!
Love my old M-100.
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- God's Country
- State
- AR
for the money and time that you have spent on that, you could have purchased a surplus US military trailer and beat the snot out of that... I abused a Canadian Military trailer for 20 years before I sold it for 4 times what I bought it for. Now I have a US Military trailer that I paid $500 CDN (like $0.75 USD) and I wont be able to kill that one. I wish I could buy some of the stuff on GovPlanet that you guys sell off...
The trailer behind my CJ-2a in my signature is a 1948 Bantam T3C, I paid $100 for it 10-12 years ago, all I've done to that is repack the bearings. Beat the snot out of that too!
I have an M416 and a beat to heck M100. They are great Jeep trailers, but DANG they've gotten expensive!
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- Biloxi
- State
- MS
Not as good as the steam cleaner, but it will do in a pinch!!
This is an employers machine, and someone left ethanol fuel in it for a couple of years!!!
This came out of the "mounted below the carburetor thank God" float bowl, I don't think gas is supposed to be green, maybe St. Patrick's Day
Cleaned the float bowl out, drained the gas tank, changed the engine oil/air filter/spark plug, and blew the carburetor out. Since it's a Honda engine, fired right up after a little maintenance!!
This is an employers machine, and someone left ethanol fuel in it for a couple of years!!!
This came out of the "mounted below the carburetor thank God" float bowl, I don't think gas is supposed to be green, maybe St. Patrick's Day
Cleaned the float bowl out, drained the gas tank, changed the engine oil/air filter/spark plug, and blew the carburetor out. Since it's a Honda engine, fired right up after a little maintenance!!
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sdsupilot
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- OKC
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- OK
I broke my HF vice the just like that changing u joints. I ground the paint off, heated it and mig welded it back together. Probably been holding for nearly a decade.
When I was in my teens, my father had a vice (auto garage was my grandfather and my father and his brothers business). It closed and my father got the vice along with his tools, etc. He showed me hot to do u-joints with the vice. A few years later I cracked the vice doing a u-joint. To put it mildly he was pissed. He ended up making a hot charcoal fire, got the vice red hot and took a torch to repair the crack. He's not with us now, but the vice is still at the house, still able to do u-joints (among other things. The vice is mine, won't let any one take in and too soon to remove it from the house to my shop. You can't find a vice that size and strong, built the way they were in the 60's. When I looked they were used around 1,000. and that was 20 years ago.